Scutellaria pekinensis var. ussuriensis("Ezotatsunamiso")
Japanese name: エゾタツナミソウ（蝦夷立浪草） Scientific name:Scutellaria pekinensis var. ussuriensis
[Overview]
A perennial 30–60 cm tall, growing in the shade of trees in the mountains.
The stem is square in cross section.
It sends slender runners underground.
Leaves are simple and opposite, triangular-ovate, with serrated margins.
The leaves are thin and almost hairless on both surfaces.
They have petioles.
A raceme at the stem tip bears flowers turned to one side.
The inflorescence has glandular hairs.
The corolla is bluish purple and two-lipped; the tube bends about 60 degrees at the base and rises obliquely, the upper lip is helmet-shaped, and the lower lip is 3-lobed and longer than the upper lip.
The fruit is a schizocarp.
